Lyan
" We're here" Oscar gently nudged me awake.
I opened my eyes slowly and saw that we had, in fact, arrived at the academy. The guys picked up our bags and began carrying them to our dorm as I picked Fluffy and left him on my bed.
Their gift was already on my desk, sitting proudly in the middle. I sat on the chair and looked at it for a while, smiling like a deranged person looking at the proff that they did care about me.
After the guys finished carrying our stuff we ran to our first class. We were already running late and arrived just as the teacher entered through the door.
" Just in time" Jack muttered and I nodded along.
Miss Ria spent the whole class trying to teach us about defense magic, but all that I understood was that you shouldn't use a flamethrower near your face. God knew how that topic even came up.
Just as Miss Ria stepped down and we all closed our bags and began getting up Stephen walked up to me.
" Hell no" I muttered, but as usual the universe didn't listen to me.
" I'm going to destroy you" He muttered.
" How?" I asked him as my guys growled behind me and planned his murder.
Stephen leaned in and whispered something into my ear just as Orus pulled him back.
" I know what you are"
" What do you mean?" I kept a cool facade but I was dying of panic inside. If he really knew he would've already tattled, right?
Instead of answering he made a motion as if he was groping his titles and I paled. He didn't know the bad secret, but what he knew was enough to get me expelled and killed.
I looked around and my guys were wearing similar murder faces, looking at Stephen as if he was prey.
My guys tried to grab Stephen but he vanished into mist before they could do that.
" What do we do now?" I asked the guys. My whole body was trembling. He had to die.
" Don't you worry" Mark threw his arms over my shoulder in an attempt to calm me down, but I could feel the slight tremble as he did.
We ran to Stephen's room, which the guys knew the location of for whatever reason, but when we broke the door and entered he wasn't there.
" Where is he?" Orus all but growled in a deep voice that sent heat all over my body.
" Dean's office" A white haired guy with piercings all over his eyebrows and deep green eyes told us.
" Why?" Mark asked, a tone in his voice that meant he was ready for murder, but not quite yet since Oscar hadn't come out yet.
" He said something about exposing someone" The guy muttered.
We all ran away from his dorm and into the dean's office as we heard a scream behind us saying" Hey, fix the door!!"
When we reached the office Jack threw the door open, breaking the hinges. As we had expected Stephen was inside, talking to the dean and as soon as he saw us his face lost all his color.
" What is this about?!" The dean screamed, looking horrified at the door.
" We heard he was going to lie to you" Jack said pointing to Stephen " and we came to prove the truth"
" They're lying!!" Stephen screamed, getting up from his seat and waiving a photo around. " This is the proof"
I paled when I saw what the photo was. It was me in the shower on our dorm, clearly naked. That little shit had placed cameras inside my bathroom.
I felt my blood boil as I looked at him. My shadows started gathering in my fists and I had to push them back down. I wanted to cry and scream and shout and hit something, all at the same time, but above all I wanted Stephen gone and six feet under.
My guys were the same as me. All of them went eerily still and looked at Stephen without blinking. I could see Orus's veins popping up from his forehead. Stephen was done for as soon as we went out, but he didn't seem to realize it as he kept happily talking about how I was a woman and a bitch that was trying to trick them and steal his guy.
" Silence!" The dean said, finally shutting Stephen up.
She took the photo from his hands and inspected it carefully. Her eyes got wider and she looked at me as if she was seeing an alien. I backed down slowly, moving away from her and behind my guys.
" You..... You.... You're expell.." The dean stopped mid sentence and her eyes turned glossy. She stood there, frozen, looking at Jack without really looking.
" That's forbidden" Stephen shouted, but instead of trying to free the dean he threw himself into Jack's arms. " It's okay. We can keep it a secret"
Watching that guy get close to my guy sent my body on fire and before I could think about it Stephen was sprawling on the floor and my shadows were over him, ready to strike again.
" What... What are you?" Stephen looked at me with fear in his eyes, but before he could say anything else Orus rushed to him and smashed his head. His brain splattered everywhere, blood all over the luxurious white carpet the dean was so proud of. The dean's office had become a murder scene.
" How will we clean this up?" I asked no one in particular, but they were all too busy looking at the dean.
She was still frozen, not really seeing.
" What did you do to her?" I asked Jack. I thought it was cool as fuck. I wanted to be able to enchant people and make them carry out my will too.
" Empaths can control people" Mark answered in Jack's instead.
" Really?" I had never heard about it.
" Yes, but they keep it a secret. Imagine the chaos that would cause. Just using those powers could get them killed" Orus answered my question.
" Then what do we do?" I asked as I laid down and took the photo from where it had fallen to the ground.
" We make her forget" Jack said just as he burned the photo in my hand.
Orus and Mark spent the next ten minutes cleaning everything up until the office was the same as how when we had entered. Stephen had been vaporized into a thousands tiny pieces and I relaxed. He would never flirt with my guys or try to hurt me ever again, because he was dead. I smiled wickedly and Mark and Orus smiled back at me. Maybe Oscar wasn't the only unhinged one. Maybe we all were.
When everything was cleaned Jack looked at the dean in the eyes and ordered her to forget. She went limp and feel to the floor. We used that seconds of confusion to get out of the office and once we were outside we heard her get up. Mission accomplished.
" Are you sure she won't remember?" I asked Jack, fearing she would and that she would order us killed.
" Do I look like an amateur?" He asked me smugly. He seemed sure of himself, but he always was and half the time it was unwarranted confidence.
" Are you really sure?"
" Yes, and now let's go take that camera off of our shower" He said, both his face and voice taking a dark turn.
We skipped the next class and went to our dorm. Inside our bathtub, in a high corner, there was a small black camera stuck to the wall with super glue. After fighting with it for a while the guys finally managed to take it off and as soon as they did Orus crashed it between his fingers.
Our next stop was Stephen's room, which still had no door since we'd broken it less than an hour ago. We entered the apartment and luckily the guy from before was nowhere to be seen.
" That's his room" I pointed to a room with a giant poster of Jack's face on the door.
" He gives me the creeps" Jack shivered. I couldn't help but agree. That guy was a complete stalker.
" Don't worry. He isn't here anymore" I held Jack's hand as we entered the room.
It was filled with junk and we had to look for a while before I found a laptop underneath his bed.
" It's here" The guys all came to where I was and I opened the laptop. Luckily for us Stephen was stupid and didn't have a password.
As soon as I turned it on a file called to me. It read Proof. I opened it and found all the camera footage. There were images of all of us. We were showering, brushing our teeth, talking, drinking water. There were hours and hours of footage. This had been planned and the camera had been on for a long time.
" If he had the footage why didn't he tattle earlier?" I wondered out loud.
" Because he liked Jack and if he told the truth they would've discovered that Jack was in on it too. He probably tried to get you to back down first and this was likely his last resort" Mark said with a dark expression. I shuddered thinking about him watching me shower and go about my daily business while watching me from his room.
" He isn't here anymore" Orus said in a low voice, trying to calm me down, but I could hear the rage in his voice. I was sure that if Stephen wasn't dead they would've murdered him another time.
I closed the folder and destroyed it. That was when I noticed another one called My love with heart emojis.
That one was completely Jack content. Jack smiling at me, Jack eating food at the cafeteria, Jack showering. There were thousands and thousands of hours of Jack doing stuff.
I quickly deleted the file and smashed the laptop against the floor.
" Let's go" I held my guy's hands as we left his room. If I could I would hit him again.
At that point we just wanted to go to our room and not speak for a while, but the dean had other plans. She called all the students to the main hall and we went there, dragging our feet and wanting nothing more than to disappear.
" Can we just not go?" I asked the guys.
" When she calls for mandatory meetings everyone outside of the range is teleported to the teacher's lounge and punished" Jack said, defeat clear in his voice.
I groaned and we went to the main hall, where we sat on top of the stairs, waiting for the dean to appear and for all of this to be over.
" She won't remember, right?" I asked for about the fourth time.
" She won't" Mark placed his hand on my head and started gently petting me. I felt as the stress left my body and I relaxed just as the dean entered through a side door.
" I'm here, as every year, to present you one of the most important people in he world." The dean appeared from the door and stood firm in front of all of us "A person who stood firm in front of the demons. A person who even came back from Jinasia. I'm here to present you High councilor Abamma" We all breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't immediately accuse us. She hadn't remembered.
" I told you she wouldn't remember" Jack said smugly. For once he was right.
The room erupted into cheers as a middle-aged woman with green hair and eyes of the same color with a skin so pale it could be considered snow entered the room.
I immediately froze. I knew that woman. She was the one that had killed my family. As cheers erupted around me all I could think about was my family and how she'd laughed besides their corpses. As everyone smiled at the monster my blood ran cold and my smile disappeared from my face.